Swift, Strong, and Atwood families papers, 1892-1983 (bulk 1939-1946).

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Swift, Strong, and Atwood families papers, 1892-1983 (bulk 1939-1946).

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Biographical data, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia of Lucian Swift and family, including photographs of Katahdin, Swifts summer home on Lake Minnetonka; Albert W. and Grace (Swift) Strong, including information about her work with the Minneapolis Society for the Blind and photographs with Helen Keller; and Joseph F. Atwood, including information about his son and daughter-in-laws work with the Hennepin County Civilian Defense Council and the American Red Cross during World War II.

0.15 cubic feet (6 folders in partial box).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Swift, Lucian, 1848-

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Strong, Albert W., 1872-1936.

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Strong, Grace, 1857-1887

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Swift family.

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Strong family.

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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968

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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) devoted her life to bettering the education and treatment of the blind, the deaf, and the nonverbal, and was a pioneer in educating the public in the prevention of blindness in newborns. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. When Helen Keller was 19 months old she became ill with Scarlet Fever, which resulted in her becoming blind and deaf. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, a book she first wrote in 1903 at the age of 23, she desc...

Minneapolis Society for the Blind (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Atwood family.

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Atwood, Joseph F., 1873-1939.

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